A replacement for Yahoo Pipes! In the early Android days, I wrote a few apps that relied on web site scraping to provide their data. Even back then, these webs

A replacement for Yahoo Pipes! In the early Android days, I wrote a few apps that relied on web site scraping to provide their data. Even back then, these websites evaded scraping. Yahoo Pipes to the rescue. You'd set it up to scrape their site and provide a well-formed RSS feed of the data. Since these sites saw Yahoo connecting, they typically didn't block it, presumably because they thought it was search crawling.